jb55 Posted July 30, 2024 Posted July 30, 2024 (edited) I set my camera to capture plain RAW images but still can't open them in Affinity. I dumped Photoshop due to their outrageous TOS but am not about to convert everything to DNG just so Affinity can open them. I've read that they're supposed to open but there must be something I'm not doing right or else there's a bug in my package. Ideas? I've attached a sample of a photo that won't open. S02080833.NEF Edited July 30, 2024 by jb55 Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 30, 2024 Posted July 30, 2024 Welcome to the Affinity forums. Thanks for the example file; that will help in the diagnosis. But please clarify what you mean by them not opening in Photo 2.5.3. Where are the files located when you try to open them? How did you try to open them? Exactly what happened when you tried? Also, what OS do you use? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Hangman Posted July 30, 2024 Posted July 30, 2024 Hi @jb55 and welcome to the forums, Your RAW file still uses Nikon's High Efficiency File Format which is not currently supported in Affinity Photo... This is the reason why your file can't be opened... R C-R and jb55 2 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
R C-R Posted July 30, 2024 Posted July 30, 2024 42 minutes ago, Hangman said: Your RAW file still uses Nikon's High Efficiency File Format which is not currently supported in Affinity Photo... This is the reason why your file can't be opened... For what very little it is worth the fie does open on my Mac into the Develop mode, but it is just totally black -- no actual or usable image info, I assume because of the lack of support for the HE format. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
jb55 Posted July 30, 2024 Author Posted July 30, 2024 I rechecked my settings and yes, I had it set wrong. Thanks for taking the time to look into it and respond. Cheers. Quote
Hangman Posted July 31, 2024 Posted July 31, 2024 7 hours ago, jb55 said: I rechecked my settings and yes, I had it set wrong. Thanks for taking the time to look into it and respond. That's no problem at all... You can open your HEIF image using NX Studio a free download from Nikon for both Mac and Windows... That would allow you to edit the RAW file, make any necessary adjustments and then export to an 8-bit or 16-bit TIFF to make further edits in Affinity Photo... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
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